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Please avoid this book. Packt proved utterly useless as a publisher during the first edition, due to outsourced editing processes that required John to mail back word documents back and forth to somebody in a different timezone. They then proceeded to publish the wrong version of one of the chapters.

The amount of hate mail John received as a result of their poor clue levels was a significant part of his decision to stop working on Catalyst core, and the person they got to update the book instead (since he refused to go near it, so far as I’m aware) was seen on IRC quite a lot over the past six months flailing over basic Catalyst stuff so the new material is probably awful as well.

The only reason I, somebody who would much rather be hacking than writing, got involved in the Apress book was to ensure there was technical oversight so that we wouldn’t have another Packt debacle.

Buy the Apress book instead – while they don’t pay a percentage of revenue to enlightened perl like Packt do for the Catalyst book, I’m donating my entire funds received from Apress to enlightened perl to make up for it (and have a $500 or so cheque sat at home that needs to go in shortly :).

BTW, anyone thinking of buying “Definitive Guide To Catalyst” by Matt et al, then please go to EPO website because I believe that the Amazon link from there is an affiliate link so even more money goes to enlightened perl.

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My name is Barry Walsh. I'm a freelance IT consultant from London, UK. [more]

This blog is mostly about Perl programming because this is what I use and love (and occasionally hate!) for the majority of my working (and sometimes non-working) day.

Occasionally I will touch on other subjects like PostgreSQL, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Ruby, jQuery, Javascript, XML and many more techie things that I also play with regularly. Other non techie aspects of my life may slip in now and again but I'll try and keep that to a minimum because its normally boring anyway :)